Your say: week beginning July 6
Every day, we publish a selection of your emails in our newsletter. We’d love to hear from you, you can email us at yoursay@theconversation.edu.au. Monday July 6 “Your article regarding…
The politics of feeling: why did ‘boring’ prime minister Keir Starmer provoke such visceral reactions?
Keir Starmer resigned as Labour leader with opinion polls indicating he was the most unpopular prime minister in modern times. This is despite the fact he had secured the second-highest…
The cooling divide: how air conditioning is creating a new climate inequality
For decades, people in the UK tended to view air conditioning as something that belonged elsewhere. It was associated with office buildings, hotels and hotter countries rather than their own…
The world’s oceans are the hottest on record for June – and El Niño is set to turn up the heat even more
More than 90% of the heat trapped by greenhouses goes into the ocean. But what happens in the oceans doesn’t stay there...Read More
Heat is destroying Australia’s underwater forests. Seaweed biobanks could help save them
Many of Australia’s shimmering seaweed forests are disappearing as the oceans get hotter. It’s time for an insurance policy...Read More
Climate warnings need to be told in tangible ways to prevent disaster
During the 2018 drought in Cape Town, South Africa, people had to queue to collect natural spring water for drinking. Mark Fisher/Shutterstock Published: June 24, 2026 5:52am EDT England is…
Does climate change lead to more migration? Here’s why researchers can’t agree on the evidence
Images of families displaced by floods, prolonged droughts or extreme storms have become a distressingly regular feature of the daily news. As the impact of climate change intensifies, so does…
El Niño is back, and ocean temperatures are already near record highs – that can spell disaster for fish and corals
El Niño can trigger intense periods of extreme ocean warming known as marine heat waves that can devastate marine life...Read More
Two decades of research show Indonesia’s coral reefs are heat-tolerant — but only up to a point
While many Indonesian reefs have remained surprisingly stable despite decades of ocean warming, this resilience has its limits...Read More